Tag: Humour
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What can Bees teach us about project management?
I have been an apiarist (beekeeper) (as a hobby) for about 18 months, I now have 2 bee hives (a kind of project portfolio in its infancy). As with any hobby, the more time you invest in it, the more you begin to understand it. One of the most surprising observations I have regarding how a bee…
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virtual teams (when being a host is not enough)
Have you ever found yourself in this situation… You are all set up in a meeting, you need to give an important update on a project, and gather some important feedback from the stakeholders in the room, you know the update could be a little controversial but that is why you organised the meeting, to…
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Can the ipod be an indicator for a project’s state of health?
As a project manager there are different reports and tools that I can use to assess the health of a project, Earned value, schedule/cost variances, fever charts. All those are fairly well known in project management circles, but there are lesser known techniques as well. Have you considered your ipod as a project health indicator?…